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Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0812236157
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217071
Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1313537939
Author : Willem de Blecourt,Ronald Hutton,Jean La Fontaine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0485890062
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Brian P. Levack,Roy Porter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485891058
The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social role of witchcraft in European communities to the end of the 19th century.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217063
Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137313249
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.
Author : Karen Jolly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0485891034
Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets.>
Author : David V. Barrett
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849018111
This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the western world where witchcraft or Wicca, Druidry, and Urban Shamanism are thriving. Alongside this there has been an upsurge in New Age ideas of an even wider variety, including astrology, Tarot, numerology, and many others. And then there are members of various schools of occult science, practising High Magic. Why this new interest in old beliefs? Why are millions of educated people today abandoning both the established religion of their parents and 21st century scientific rationalism and turning to magic and esoteric teachings? In their search for spirituality those who follow these paths claim to be applying ancient wisdom to the modern world. The Brief History of Secret Religions, a companion book to The Brief History of Secret Societies, looks at the history and variety of these esoteric movements, where they came from and what they tell us about the world today. Praise for The New Believers: 'an excellent guide to fringe religions that juxtaposes "respectable" movements and those conventionally dismissed as cults.' The Telegraph. 'no-nonsense, comprehensive survey packed with non-judgmental information about the beliefs, aims and activities of such movements. Daily Mail.
Author : R. Schulte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230240742
Witch-hunts in Central Europe were by no means focused only on women; one in four alleged witches was male. This study analyzes and describes the witch trials of men in French and German-speaking regions, opening up a little known chapter of early modern times, and revealing the conflicts from which witch-hunts of men evolved.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217055
Topics include binding spells, curse tablets, and the demonization of magic and sorcery by Christianity.
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485891065
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers
Author : Scott E. Hendrix,Uchenna Okeja
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440841385
This book provides reliable information about important world religious leaders, correcting the misinformation that can be on the internet. Religious leaders have shaped the course of history and deeply affected the lives of many individuals. This book offers alphabetically arranged profiles of roughly 160 religious leaders from around the world and across time, carefully chosen for their impact and importance and to maximize inclusiveness of faiths from around the world. Scholars from around the world, each one an expert in his or her field and all holding advanced degrees, came together to create an essential resource for students and for those with an interest in religion and its history. Every entry has been carefully edited in a two-stage review process, guaranteeing accuracy and readability throughout the work. Not strictly a biographical reference that recounts the facts of religious figures' lives, the book helps users understand how the selected figures changed history. The entries are accompanied by excerpts of primary source documents and suggestions for further reading, while the book closes with a bibliography of essential print and electronic resources for further research.
Author : Owen Davies,Willem De Blécourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0719066603
Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century.
Author : Stuart Clark,William Monter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485890044
The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.>